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If you'd like to help coordinate promotion for our second Kickstarter effort, please email me at joe@andrieu.net. We'll be launching relatively soon and I'd like to sync up with our allies out there to give us as much juice as we can.

Since the last update, we've been hard at work improving the Label and building a browser addon for Chrome that can display it for any website you visit. I demo'd the addon at the 2012 Cloud Identity Summit yesterday (Thursday July 19) and was quite happy with how it went. =)

The code is currently available in the summit-demo branch on GitHub at

There isn't much in the way of documentation, but it's out there. =) We'll be moving this to a different repository soon and providing a bit more documentation and licensing details (it'll be some form of open source). Since we're doing this as open as possible, I wanted you, our backers, to be the first to hear that a (minimally functional) version of the addon is available for tech-minded developers.

More as it happens. Please let me know (joe@andrieu.net) if you'd like to help promote the second attempt with Kickstarter.

Not nearly enough...

Unless a miracle occurs in the final minutes, we aren't going to reach our goal. And since I'm not sure if we can send out updates after the project fails to reach its goal, I wanted to send a quick note out to all of you.

This has been an incredible experience. The community rallied to support our work, and even though we didn't get enough traction to get the funding this time, we got great engagement, great feedback, and excellent progress towards our ultimate goal: a simpler, more user-driven World Wide Web.

The project itself made us rethink our assumptions about the work at the Information Sharing Work Group and distill the core value in the very front part of that effort: The Standard Information Sharing Label. That shift in focus allowed us to realize that the Label works all by itself... even without the sophisticated legal framework we had been working on in the ISWG conversation.

Thank you for catalyzing that. We now have a draft spec and an actionable tool that we can evolve to work for websites everywhere.

We'll be back!

Kickstarter is happy to let proposers try again if their first effort doesn't succeed. We got a lot of great feedback about how we could improve our project, both from a pure communications standpoint, and in more substantial ways, like demonstrating that websites will actually use the label. Once we feel we've made substantial progress in these areas, we'll come back to Kickstarter and try again.

We're not done yet!

Thanks again for your help, your feedback, and your appreciation. We've got a lot of good work yet to do and we look forward to working with you as we make this project a success.

Less than 12 hours left!

We have received lots of great feedback on our initial specification, from IIW, PII, and direct from backers and supporters. Based on that feedback, we've updated the specification to include several new terms:

Where

Contact

Author

Redistribution

Revocation

Access

You can see the current specification (as well as any prior versions) here.

We've got just about 32 hours left in this fundraiser! If you're considering backing this effort, now is the time. If we don't raise another $9,288 in the next 32 hours, none of the current funds will go towards our work.

Please tell your friends, call in favors, and help us get over the hump!